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Seafarer COVID-vaccination numbers continue to climb

November 17, 2021 by Shipping Australia

About 41% of the world's seafaring workforce has been COVID-vaccinated, according to the latest data from the Neptune Declaration's Crew Change Indicator. The Neptune Declaration is an agreement subscribed to by about 850 organizations that are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Releases, Members, Policy Council Tagged With: biosecurity, COVID, COVID-19, COVID19, Novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, Seafarer vaccination, Seafarer vaccines, Vaccination, Vaccine

Ocean shipping industry has repeatedly demonstrated anti-COVID measures

August 6, 2021 by Shipping Australia

Global ocean-going shipping companies have repeatedly demonstrated to the authorities in general that the shipping industry is taking a great number of measures to keep its crews and shore side communities safe from COVID. Back in July 2020, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Releases, Members, Policy Council Tagged With: biosecurity, COVID, COVID Pandemic, COVID-19, COVID19, Human biosecurity, Novel Coronavirus, Pandemic, Shipping regulation, WA, WA Government, Western Australia

ISWAN launches vaccination drive for Indian seafarers

June 25, 2021 by Jim Wilson

By ISWAN In response to the second wave of COVID-19 in India, the International Seafarers’ Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) has launched a ‘Vaccination Drive for Indian Seafarers’ in collaboration with Narayana Health and the Medica Group of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Releases, Members, Policy Council Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID, Novel Coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, Vaccination

NSW officials and maritime sector meet to tackle COVID

December 23, 2020 by Shipping Australia

After 10 months of the COVID-19 crisis and plenty of uncertainty over the management of maritime workers and seafarers, medical care, seafarer crew changes and access to medical care, real consultation started yesterday. NSW public health … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Covid-19, Media Releases, Members, Policy Council Tagged With: COVID, COVID-19, Crew changes, Human biosecurity, Maritime quarantine, Novel Coronavirus, Pandemic, Public Health, seafarers

New crew-change policy is neat, plausible… and wrong

November 20, 2020 by Shipping Australia

Shipping Australia is very concerned about the ongoing crisis caused by a lack of crew changes. Hundreds of thousands of people are trapped at sea and hundreds of thousands of people are waiting (without pay) to go to sea. It is a humanitarian … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Releases, Members, Policy Council Tagged With: AMSA, Australian Maritime Safety Authority, biosecurity, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID19, Detention, Economic crisis, Economy, Human biosecurity, Logistics, Novel Coronavirus, Pandemic, ports, Ship Detention

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